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Here are some terms that appear in bug reports.
- "Empty" means
"There are a bunch of things here, but not the ones I wanted." - "Blank" means
"There are things, maybe." - "The picture is wrong" can mean practically anything,
including possibly "The picture is right." - "It didn't work" can also mean practically anything,
including possibly "It worked."
One of my colleagues works on video drivers.
He pointed out that when there's a bug of the form
"... and then I get a black screen,"
there's a decent probability that the bug will
include a screen shot.
You can imagine what the screen shot looks like.
At least it compresses well.